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VA VA - Mamta Kafle Bhatt, 28, mom & pediatric nurse, 'involuntary missing,' husband reported her missing Aug 5, Manassas Park, 31 July 2024
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28-year-old mother 'involuntarily' missing for 2 weeks, police say
Mamta Kafle, 28, was last seen on July 31 in Manassas Park, Virginia, about 30 miles outside of Washington, D.C, police said.
8/15/24
Kafle's friend, Nadia Navarro, who organized Tuesday's gathering, told WJLA that it is unlike the mother to leave her 11-month-old daughter.
"Even if she was desperate, even if she might have been facing something, she wouldn't have left her daughter," Navarro told WJLA. "She was very self-sacrificial that way, no matter what would have been happening."
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Family questions timeline of Manassas mother's disappearance
The search for a Manassas woman is still underway and as the investigation into her disappearance continues, family members and friends have questions about the timeline police have provided so far.
8/14/24
"The timelines are not aligning," friend Nadia Navarro said.
The last time Navarro heard from her friend was just days before she went missing.
"July 28 probably is the last time she tried to contact me," Navarro told FOX 5. "It was a missed call."
She didn’t think anything of it until she saw a poster online saying that her 28-year-old friend was missing.
"I was like, ‘that’s strange.’ We had just planned a sleepover to see each other," said Navarro.
The two were roommates back in 2021 when Kafle’s husband was deployed.
"Mamta was more like a big sister to me," Navarro said.
Kafle and her husband later moved into their home in Manassas Park where they were raising their 11-month-old baby girl. Now, friends of Kafle’s like Navarro are questioning why she would just up and leave her little girl.
"She loved her baby more than anything else in the world," said Navarro.
This is why I don't believe there's any chance she left of her own volition.28-year-old mother 'involuntarily' missing for 2 weeks, police say
Mamta Kafle, 28, was last seen on July 31 in Manassas Park, Virginia, about 30 miles outside of Washington, D.C, police said.abc7.com
8/15/24
Kafle's friend, Nadia Navarro, who organized Tuesday's gathering, told WJLA that it is unlike the mother to leave her 11-month-old daughter.
"Even if she was desperate, even if she might have been facing something, she wouldn't have left her daughter," Navarro told WJLA. "She was very self-sacrificial that way, no matter what would have been happening."
And remember, everyone, we have seen many cases where PD is quiet until an arrest is made and then we learn they knew all along the partner was responsible even though we saw them say 'They're being cooperative' and didn't name them as a POI. They need to get their case together, often requiring search warrants and then an arrest warrant that needs to be reviewed and signed. They may remain hush so as not to screw their case. It is not all in the PD's control. Entirely possible that is the case here.
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I wish I could sit on the fence with you, @Inthedetails--but there are two big things that just prevent me from being able to believe she is missing of her own volition.
The first is that she has a young baby, and it just seems...unlikely...that she would leave without the child. Now, is it possible that maybe she felt the baby would be at risk while she fled,or she honestly believed the child would be safer/better provided-for (temporarily or long-term) if in the care of its father? Of course! But just going by the cases I've followed, it would be a pretty unusual circumstance for a new mother (whose friends describe her as loving her baby "more than anything in the world") to abandon her infant without a word to anyone about it.
Second: she had an INS interview coming up that she apparently just missed. I hope anyone who's more knowledgeable about this than me will weigh in, but I believe it can take a while for a person to even get an interview slot--so it would seem to follow that most people don't miss those appointments without a very, very good reason (and if they know they are going to miss it, I would think most people would at least attempt to officially cancel the appointment so as to not look irresponsible/careless/negligent to the agency which dictates their visa/citizenship status!).
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I just looked it up on the USCIS website, and the processing time for the application for naturalization (N-400) at the Washington DC office is 7 months.
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There's an extended interview with the husband here. In cases like this we generally find ourselves wishing later that reporters asked certain questions. She asks some really good ones here, and we get some clarity on some things:
He never contacted police when she left before.
When he was searching for his wife in those early days (before the report), he says that he was just driving around and looking outside the places where she typically went.
She was supposed to work the next morning, after their alleged dinner on the 31st.
It doesn't sound like they typically slept in the same bedroom, and he makes reference to one of them apparently sleeping on the floor when they did sleep in the same room. On the night in question, his last memory is allegedly of him hearing his wife in the kitchen after dinner (he and the baby had supposedly gone upstairs to bed).
www.wusa9.com
He never contacted police when she left before.
When he was searching for his wife in those early days (before the report), he says that he was just driving around and looking outside the places where she typically went.
She was supposed to work the next morning, after their alleged dinner on the 31st.
It doesn't sound like they typically slept in the same bedroom, and he makes reference to one of them apparently sleeping on the floor when they did sleep in the same room. On the night in question, his last memory is allegedly of him hearing his wife in the kitchen after dinner (he and the baby had supposedly gone upstairs to bed).
Search efforts for missing Manassas Park mother expands to more social media pages, help from Marine
Manassas Park Police said Mamta Kafle Bhatt was last seen about two weeks ago. Her disappearance is being investigated as a critical missing person case.
www.wusa9.com